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VOL,. . L.VI. NO. 17,326. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DELEGATES RUSH TO HUGHES CAMP Undercurrent for Jurist Is Amazing. SMOOT DESERTS T. R. FORCES Roosevelt Movement Seems to Be at Standstill. ', MOOSE DESIRE HARMONY General Trend of Day Is to Put .Progressives in Position to Bo Able to Indorse Mr. Hughes it lie Gets Nomniation. CHICAGO, June 1. (Special.) This was a Hughes day. There was a fur ther distinct swing? toward the Supreme Court Justice for the Republican Presi dential nomination, while the Roosevelt movement seemed to he practically at a standstill so far as It was reflected among; the Republican leaders who are gathering; here for the National con vention. The coming together of the Repub lican National Committee to pass on the contested seats disclosed a sur prisingly strong undercurrent In favor of Hughes among the party leaders. The talk among them for Roosevelt was much less pronounced. On one point nearly all seemed to agree that ' the nomination for first place on the Republican ticket lies between the jurist and Colonel Roosevelt. Reed Smoot Espouses Jurist. The situation was summed up by Reed Smoot, United States Senator from Utah, who declared In favor of Justice Hughes upon his arrival here this morning. Senator Smoot is cred ited with being one of the keenest political observers among conservative leaders, and his statement attracted added attention because of the fact that personally he always had been friendly disposed toward Colonel Roosevelt. Said he: '".-'.. "If I were a betting man, I would lay odds of 10 to one that Hughes will be the nominee and . 20 to one that Roosevelt will not get the nomination. That is the way I size up the situation after conferring with leaders from all sections of the country." Hughes Sentiment Is General. This statement by Senator Smoot is only one of several made by several Republican leaders who arrived here today and who seemed disposed to urge the nomination of Hughes. Most of these were not ready to talk for pub lication, but their leaning toward Hughes was unmistakable. There were circumstantial reports that ex-Senator w. Murray Crane, of Massachusetts, who is one of the pow ers in the Republican party, will make known his preference for Hughes soon after his arrival In Chicago tomorrow. Next to the drift which seems to have set in again toward Justice Hughes the most interesting develop ment of the day was the evidence given that the Progressive party leaders are not coming to Chicago with any chip on their shoulder, but that they are actuated by a sincere desire for har mony. George W. Perkins, soon after his arrival in Chicago, issued a state ment in which he emphasized the fact that the all-important Issue is the elim lnation of President Wilson ' from the White House. . ' T. R. Ready to Make Sacrifices. This has been represented by Colo nel Roosevelt's friends to be his chief purpose, and Republican leaders imme diately interpreted the Perkins state ment as further evidence that Colonel Roosevelt will be willing to make per sonal sacrifices if necessary in order to achieve this end. This Is the Perkins statement: "I regret to see by the papers, and through some things 1 heard upon my arrival this morning, that there ap peared to be some danger of friction and unpleasant feelings in the various camps now gathering here. "The Progressive party has no inter est in any of the differences. We are approaching the coming convention from the standpoint of the statement our National committee' issued last January, and all events since then have strengthened our belief, as at that time declared, the paramount interests of the country demanded a united oppo sition to the Wilson administration. Main Idea Is to Best Democrats. "I believe that the 1000 delegates of the Republican convention and the 1000 delegates of the Progressive conven tion, imbued with the great responsi bility resting upon both gatherings, will come together and do the patriotic thing. When I picked up the papers this morning and found that Carranza had. In his note received in Washing ton, more than Intimated that the Wil son Administration had misled and de ceived him, it occurred to me that as far as I know this is the first time In 135 years that anybody has accused Uncle Sam of duplicity. The all-im portant thing is to wipe out such stain upon our good name as speedily as possible. "Personally I believe, of course, that Colonel Roosevelt is the most available American with whom to bring- about this extremely desirable change. The apparent desire on the part of Mr. Perkins and other Progressive leaders to bring about a harmonious (Concluded on Face Column 2.) AUSTRIANS THROWN INTO VERDUN FIGHT GERMANS ARE DEFEATED AT DEAD MAN'S HILL. Berlin Admits Reverse, bnt Re ports Heavy losses Inflict ed on French. , PARIS, June 1. Several thousand Austrian troops have been observed among recent reinforcements brought to the vicinity of Douaumont. Among military observers here this Is believed to indicate that Germany has insisted that Austria divide her effectives in aid of the Germans, in spite of the fact that an Austrian of fensive is being pressed against Italy. The Germans were completely re pulsed in an attack delivered on the French positions at Dead Man Hill about 8 o'clock . last night, according to an official statement issued by the French War Office.' A violent bombard ment continued in this region through out the night. An intense artillery duel is in progress on the east and west fronts of Douaumont. BERLIN, via London, June 1. In an attack on German positions southeast of Dead Man Hill on the Verdun front the French obtained a foothold in the German first-line trenches over an ex tent of 400 meters, the War Office an nounced today. The French made re peated assaults on the German lines, but other than that at the point men tioned were beaten off with extremely heavy losses. ARCTICS BRAVED TO ENLIST Two Walk Hundreds of Miles Over 4 Ice to Help Canada. VANCOUVER, B. p., June 1. William Annett and W. C. Reddy, who had been prospecting and trapping on the Arc tic Ocean for years, arrived at Dawson today and enlisted in the Canadian army for service In Europe. Setting out from Herschel Island, near the mouth of the Mackenzie River, months ago, these men tramped for hundreds of miles across ice and through snow from the Arctic shores up the Porcupine River to Fort Yukon, and there awaited the breaking up of the ice. The first steamer, the Reli ance, bore them to Dawson. ' 1 VOTE TURNS NOMINATION . McKlnney Is Republican Choice for Attorney by Official Count. LAKEVIEW, Or, June 1. (Special.) It took the official count to decide the spirited contest in Lake County for the Republican nomination for District Attorney, with four candidates in the field. On they official canvass, just com pleted, T. McKlnney has won the nom ination over T. Farrell by Just one vote. Mr. McKlnney received 172 votes to' 171 for Farrel. H. P.- Welch and F. C. Schafer received 129 and 110 votes, respectively. AIRMEN ATTACK WARSHIPS German Aviators in Aegean Drop Bombs on Enemy Squadron. BERLIN June 1. (By wireless to Sayvllle.) "On May 22 German naval aeroplanes in the Aegean Sea between Dedeagatch and Samothraki Island at tacked a squadron of four enemy ships," says a German Admiralty state ment today. "One ship employed as a vessel on which to start aeroplane flights was twice hit. The enemy ships then sailed off in the direction of Imbros." PROSPECTORS DIE ON TRAIL Men in Interior Alaska Succumb AVhen Nearlng Cabin. SEATTLE, Wash., June 1. A letter from Iditarod, Alaska, says that Jack Lahey and Tom Wilson, of Wilkeson, Wash., prospectors, died of starvation on the Forty-mile Cut-Off when bound from Hughes to Nulato. They gave up when only 13 miles from a cabin where abundance of food might have been obtained. ROSE FESTIVAL OREGO NIANS, FIVE ISSUES, IN CLUDING POSTAGE, 15c. - Mail to your friends in the East The Oregonian during Rose Festival Week, beginning Wednesday, June 7, and ending with the Great Sunday Edition, June 11. Complete and exhaustive re ports with numerous high-class, half-tone illustrations will be featured daily. The Portland Annual Rose Festival has been widely advertised throughout the United States, and no more attractive testimonal to your friends could be given during the event than a subscription to the Greatest Daily of the Great Northwest. Orders given now in the business office or sent in by mail to The Oregonian will receive prompt and careful at tention. Subscription price of the five issues, including postage, is 15 cents. See order blank elsewhere in this issue. PEACE SECTION IS KEPT IN NAVY BILL Attack on Hensley Re solution Beaten. ENLISTMENT PERIOD IS CUT $6,000,000 for Navy-Yards, Including Puget Sound, Given. CHAMP CLARK TAKES HAND Speaker, in Declaring Monroe Doc trine Will Never Be Arbitrated, Says No Nation Is Foolish. Enough to Attack America. WASHINGTON, June 1. An unsuc cessful fight was led by Representative Gardner, of Massachusetts, on the section of the naval bill embracing the Hensley resolution authorizing partici pation by the United States in the es tablishment of an international court for the enforcement of peace. The section was retained without a rollcall In the House sitting as a committee of the whole. Pacifists, so-called "little Navy" men and other advocates of general un preparedness, rallied to the support of the section. Speaker Clark took the floor and aroused, enthusiasm by de claring the section was the best feature of the bill. Paget Sound Yard Provided For. Advocates of greater preparedness than is provided by the naval bill as reported, won some victories during the day. They succeeded in obtaining appropriations not to exceed $6,030,000 for enlarging the Navy-yards at Bos ton. Portsmouth. N. H.: Charleston. Philadelphia, Norfolk, New Orleans and Puget Sound. Capital ships would be constructed at the Puget Sound, Nor folk, Philadelphia and Boston yards. An amendment designed to lower the enlistment period in the Navy from four to three years and to- permit a man to enter the reserve after one year's service -also was adopted. Unsuccessful fights were made for appropriations totalling $1,000,000 for the Improvement of the Mare Island and Brooklyn Navy-yards. The Hensley section of the bill would appropriate $200,000 and provide for the appointment of nine men by the Presi dent at the close of the European war to enter into negotiations with other countries for establishment of an in ternational court to enforce peace. It was placed in the bill as a compromise when it appeared that the opponents of a greater Navy would not support the committee measure. Efficacy of Plan Doubted. Representative Gardner declared the plan could not be carried out and if the United States had been a party to such an agreement in 1914 Congress would not have voted to send the coun try's quota of 600.000 men abroad to aid in the enforcement of peace. Mr. Gardner wanted to know whether the United States would arbitrate the Monroe Doctrine, if it were assailed. Concluded on Page 3. Column 2. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 64 degrees; minimum, 60 decree. TODAY'S Fair, warmer;- westerly winds. Mexico. Tone of Mexican note offensive to Admin istration at Washington. Page 4. Politics. - Roosevelt" and Hughes forces Jubilant over Initial victory over convention delegates. Page 2. Delegates rush to Hughes amp. Page 1. Root gains snd Hughes loses 16 votes through Georgia contest decision. Page -. ' War. Austrian thrown Into Vewrun tattle; Ger mans meet reverse. Page 1. National. Peace enforcement section in Navy bill I withstands attack. Psge 1. I Court confirmed. Page 2. Senate pssses land grant bill fsvorsble to Oregon's Interests. Psge 6. Domestic Dr. Waits sentenced to die In July. Page 3. Wholesale land frauds In Oregon bared by confession. Page 3. Mrs. J. E. Cowles elected president of Fed eration of Women's Clubs. Psge S. Sport. ., Pacific Cosst League results; Los Angeles 5. Portland 4: San Francisco i. Oakland 1 ; Vernon-Salt Lake gams postponed. Page 10. Dodgers wallop Braves, 6-1 and 2-1. Pago Iff. Indians and Browns divide two. Psga 16. Two winners In The Oregonlsn's Roller Msfrathon last year are Ineligible. Page 18. Ten qualify In -Portland Club's finsls for state tourney. Page IT. Spearon and Snook Invited to Chicago tn- terscholastlc track meet. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. Chehalls to rush line to tap timber and mill will be erected. Psge T. Wllllan Grant Webster considered rsce for Presidency ss well as second plsce. Psge 7. Pacific University-Albany College merger l admittedly under consideration. Psga S. Boise's Mayor ousted by recall. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Early sale of Columbia River salmon pack assured. Page 21. Stock market firm In spits of Mexican situ ation. Page 21. Big strike is on, affecting shipping along entire coast. Psge 1. Northern Pacific turblners resume Summer run. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. Portland Academy class to graduate to night. Psge 8. Women give voto of thsnks to Mrs. Vaughn. Page 14. Criminal chargs of non-support brought against p. B. McCracken by wife. Page 10. Cruiser Marblehead object of great interest. Page 4. Hughes' lesd over Wilson In Multnomah, of ficially, is mors than 3 to 1. Page . Church defined In address before United Brethren's conference. Page 22. Threatened strike causes indefinite suspen sion of St. Johns tunnel job. Page o. All Is In readiness for prepsredness psrade. Page 8. Society's elect to appear in movies. Page I. Prohibitionists start move to bar importa tion of liquor into state. Page o. Jeweler becomes diplomat In selling foreign goods to belligerents. Page 22. Help for Armenians growing. Page ft. Weather report, dsta and forecast. Psge 21. WOMAN ADMITS POISONING Mrs. Oakley, Who Gave Cream Puff With Drag, to Serve Life Term. PROVIDENCE, R. I.. June 1, Mrs. Hattie E. Oakley today pleaded guilty to the charge of murder for causing the death of Almand Vadeboncoeur, who died. January -6 alter eating a poisoned cream puff. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison. NORWEGIAN SHIP AGROUND Grain-Laden Steamer on Newfound land Shore May Be Total Wreck. ST. JOHNS, N. P.. June 1. The Nor wegian steamer Llngford, grain laden, went aground off Holy Rood in St. Mary's Bay, on the southeast coast.' to day. It was said tonight that she was likely to become a total wreck. WE KNOW JUST HOW CARRANZA FEELS s ( SOCIETY'S ELECT TO APPEAR IN MOVIES Vampire's Wiles to Be Scenario Theme. '. PRODUCTION IS FOR CHARITY Proceeds to Be Turned Over to People's Institute. CAST PARTLY COMPLETE Fashionable Home of Mrs. Helen Ladrt Corbett to Be Open for Main Scenes Ford Tarpley to Direct Play. Society's elect are about to go into the movies. Chicken. Claws and Kisses" or "Veda, the Vampire." is the thrilling title of the photoplay which will be exclusive social belles and beaux as the actresses and actors, and fashionable homes and ultra-smart rendezvouses in and out of Portland as the setting. The production is to be made in the name of Charity, and when the returns are in, the proceeds will be turned over to the People's Institute. The entire plan is almost a secret, but enough of it leaked out yesterday to make it a fact. The final sanction waa given yesterday by the social dictators of the city's "four hundred." and a few grouchy papas are yet to be won over by two or three aspiring Mary Tick fords of the drawing-room. Plot la Approved. At any rate, one-half of the big cast has been engaged, and Ford Tarpley. the evil genius behind the affair, has already written the first reel for the sensational idea. Mr. Tarpley has sub mitted the idea to the arbiters of things proper and It has been passed by the social censor board. To his aid has been brought two ' members of Grub Street Club. Mrs. Elenor Sawyer and Mrs. Folger Johnson, and also EUa Gill. The production is in the hand of Mr. Tarpley.' It will be ready for the moving picture camera, men within a fortnight, and will be shown at one of the, big theaters within a month. All who would look upon society in the movies real. nuine society will have to pay a small price. This money realized will go to the fund of tho People's Institute. Miss I.add to Be Star. Here are come of the girls who will be scr-er.ed in the big production: Miss Helen Ladd, Miss Barbara Bart lett. Mrs. Hazel Litt. Miss Marjorle Hoffman, Miss Evelyn Carey, Miss Huth Teal, Miss Elizabeth Jones. Miss Nancy Zan. Miss Sara McCully, Miss Genevieve Brooke, and there are others whose parents are yet to be won over. And these are some of the society beaux who will be the heroes and villyuns: Iceland Smith. Freddie Forster, John Adams, Philip Patterson, Alan Green, and others whose modesty is yet to be subdued. Miss Helen Ladd, It Is learned, will (Concluded on Pass 10. Column 2.) ABOUT IT. BOISE'S MAYOR IS OUSTED BY RECALL STRICT ENFORCEMENT. THEX FAVORITISM. DISPLEASE. 3. W. Robinson, With Councilman Eichelberger, Removed, and Suc cessors to Take Of rice at Once. BOISE. Idaho. June 1. especial.) Jeremiah W. Robinson. Mayor of this city, waa recalled from that office here tonight through the election of Samuel H. Hays,' the recall candidate. With Mayor Robinson went Albert V. Elchel berger. Councilman, who was recalled through the election of William D. Stevens. The recall advocates are celebrating tonight. Hays' majority over Robinson was 134; Stevens was elected over Eichel berger by .a majority of 351. The re sult of the election of the recall candi dates was a surprise. The heaviest vote-cast in the history of a municipal election In Boise was recorded. The recall election Is the first In the history of Boise and was made possible because this city is operating under the commission form of government. The fight centered on Mayor Robinson first because of his strict enforcement of the laws and the raiding of private res idences because of their classification as places of prostitution. When one of the prominent residents of the city was not arrested when found in a com promising position, there was wide spread indignation. A committee of 100 leading citizens circulated a recall petition and the election took place to recall the Mayor and Councilman ' Elchelberger. who defended him. The fight was waged bitterly The affairs of the city governmnt will be turned over to the recall candi dates. SUTHERLIN BEETS THRIVE Crops on Tract of 600 Acrea Are Be ing Thinned and Hoed. SUTHERLIN. Or.. June 1. (Special.) The planting of 600 acres of land in the Sutherlin district to beets for the Oregon-Utah Sugar Company has been completed and according to F. S. Brim, well, district superintendent for the Oregon-Utah people, the growing crop here is one of the best prospects in the Northwest. The work Is progressing rapidly on the thinning and hoeing of the beet fields, which were planted in April and May. JAIM1IM GETS CURTISS RIGHT Commissioner of Patents Rules on Hydro-Aeroplane Invention. ASHINGTON, June 1. Priority of Invention of the hydro-aeroplane was awarded by the District Supreme Court to Albert S. Janin against Glenn H. Curtiss. A decision of the commis sioner of the patents was reversed on the ground that Janin had established a date of conception three years ahead of Curtiss. The court held, however, that its de cision would not take from Curtiss the patentable "subject matter he may nave originated." MAY IS WITHOUT BRIDES First Clackamas License Issued In More Than a Month. OREGON CITT. Or.. June 1. (SDe- cial.) The first marriage license in Clackamas County since April 39 was issued today to Anna M. Lunt and Will lam L. Snidow. of Willamette. Not i license was issued in this county of 37.000 persons tor the month of May. rurlng this period, from April 29 to today. 2a divorce suits were filed in the Clackamas County Circuit Court, averaging about one a day. excluding Sundays and holidays. WILSON ASKED TO REPORT Senate Wants Light on Kmbargo on Aid for Poland. WASHINGTON". June 1. A resolution asking the President to report on the restrictions Imposed by the belligerent nations on importations of food supplies for suffering Inhabitants in Poland was adopted today by the Senate. Senator John Sharp Williams pro tested against Poland's being singled out for possible relief from Congress, while no Inquiry was made as to con ditions In Belgium. Serbia and Armeni BARI, ITALY, IS BOMBARDED Austrian Airmen fehell Postoffice. Barracks and Citadels. BERLIN. June 1. (By wireless to Sayville.) An air raid on Barl, on the Italian Adriatic coast, on May 24. is reported by the Austro-Hungarian Ad miralty under date of May 23. The report says numerous bombs were dropped on the railroad station, poslofflce. barracks and citadels, that a good effect was observed and that all the aeroplanes returned undamaged. SUFFRAGE ISSUE DODGED House Committeemen Leave Room and Xo Quorum Is Result. WASHINGTON. June 1. Representa tives in Congress from women suffrage states at a special hearing before the House Judiciary committee insisted on a report on the Susan B. Anthony amendmont for woman suffrage, so that the Issue may be squarely voted on. A number of members opposing suf frage left the room, and the committee was confronted with no quorum. BIG STRIKE IS ON ALONG WHOLE COAST Ocean and River Ship ping Partly Tied Up. DISORDER FIRST DAY SLIGHT Inland Craft Operate Here, but Quit in California. FREIGHTS ARE HELD BACK Handling of Cargoes for Deep water Vessels Practically Stops. Thousands of Longshorc ntcn Walk Out. LONGSHOREMEN'S STRIKE IS FELT AT PACIFIC COAST PORTS. Portland Longshoremen and river steamboatmen go on strike, causing partial tie-up in move ment of vessels and handling of freights. Astoria About 250 men strike In Lower Columbia district. Crews and mill gangs load lumber ves sels. Master of Northern Pacific refuses part cargo, and turblner sails. San Francisco Strike of 4 000 men ties up shipping. Compromise is rejected by union. Three com panies grant full demands. Aberdeen A few men who did not Join In strike are completing loading of three steamers. Seattle Union officials say 4500 men are out on Puget Sound. Mediation conference Is held. Non-union men unload Japanese and 'Alaskan liners. Tacoma Nine hundred long shoremen strike, tying up water front. Pickets are placed on docks. San Pedro Six freight steam ers lis idle when 1000 men strike. Portland's first day In the combina tion strike, which went into effect at 6 A. M. yesterday along the Pacifio Coast, affecting deepwater and inland commerce and causing a partial tieup of oceangoing and river vessels, was brought to a close last night with no marked change as to the programme of unions and employers, some vessels being idle, but not all of either fleet suffered. Along the waterfront the principal evidence of a strike- was found among steamboat firemen and deckhand.', small numbers of them having gath ered at different steamboat slips. None of tne tongshorenin were seen about docks, and at their headquarters all was serene. First Clash Reported. At the request of the employers, po'lee were stationed at different steamboat docks. Harbormaster Speler beiag ir. general charge of the men. his limited regul.- force hHng aug mented by details from the central station. The first fight in the strike occurred last night at First and Washington streets. Harry Hermanaon. formerly a deckhand on the Dalles City, was ar rested as a result of the fight, and held on a disorderly conduct charge. The fight started when three or four strikebreakers, so far as could be as certained, employed on the steamer Kellogg, left the dock. They were ac costed by a number of strikers. Her manson being among the number. Ac cording to Hermanson, one of th strikebreakers threw up his guard when questioned as to his status as a steamboat employe. Hermanson. who Is S feet 2 inches tall and weighs more than 200 pounds, was not to be bluffed nor struck first. After a few blows had been exchanged, police officers arrived and the combatants scattered. Her manson ran Into a lamp post and was taken to the station, others of his "gang following him. A swollen lip bore out the testimony of Hermanson as to his collision with the lamp post. 1.11 tie Activity Shown. The fact the "Big Three" liner Beaver had been ordered not to work cargo for the present and no others of the deepwater fleet made port until the arrival of the F. A. Kllburn, ot the North Pacific line, late last night, made It noticeably quiet so far as the longshoremen were concerned. The only outside carrier worked In the har bor was barge No. 38. of the Columbia Contract Company's fleet, which fin ished loading lumber at the Southern Pacific dock, on the East Side, north of the Burnside-street bridge. She bad been loaded by the longshoremen up to 8 o'clock Wednesday night, and as the last of the load was not aboard they consented to nonunion men being employed. At the Oregon Stevedoring Com pany's office It was said the' scale de- manded by the longshoremen was of- . fered for loading the schooner Alumna, at Knappton. but no work was done, as no agreement was signed. It was reported that the crew of the schooner A F. Coates. at Wauna. had walked ashore when ordered to load the ship and do the work On the dock usually handled by longshoremen, instructions having been given all union tailors along that line. Telegrams to the longshoremen from San Francisco ant: Seattle were In ef tConciudsd oa Fks 20. Csluma X.i
